novelraw Chapter 898: Watching My Past Again
Chapter 898: Watching My Past Again
In the meeting the next day, first, I told everyone what happened during the climb.
"So, I kept climbing without caring about other stuffs. And it turns out that it was all an illusion created by this guy, the Spirit King. And I learned that him granting a wish was a lie," I explained to everyone.
"No, it’s not a lie. If they think that it’s real inside the illusion, then it is real for them. So I actually didn’t lie," the Spirit King said.
After I brought everyone to the meeting place in Consenza this time, I opened a portal to the flower garden and brought the Spirit King here. Some other spirits also entered, but they just playing tag with Airy and Breezy.
Well, we just let them play in this meeting room in front of the kings. They are our important friends since they will be the one to help us improve our magic. So no one here dare to go against them who are just playing around.
Except for me. I just don’t want them to disturb us who are having important meeting.
"Airy, let them play only on the top part of this room. Then use your magic to block the sound so you won’t disturb us," I said when I saw that the spirits started playing around.
And Airy kindly do as I say. She’s the smartest spirit. And although she loves to play like Breezy and other spirits, she knows not to cause trouble with the others.
So right now, in this meeting room, when we look above us, we can see several spirits flying around. Though they’re all wind spirits, so they can fly.
I guess all wind spirits are too free. They can fly and want to play around as much as possible.
Only wind spirits entered my portal when I opened it. Though there are other spirits there.
There are fire spirits, but I didn’t see any fire in the flower garden. Maybe they have their own base which is on fire over there. I haven’t asked the Spirit King yet.
"So, you can’t grant our wish to find the Evil God?" Yuria asked. She’s the President of Rygis.
"I might be a spirit who can use all elements. But according to human mages’s level, all my elements are roughly at expert level. So if master level earth mages can’t find that Evil God, it’s impossible for me," the Spirit King said.
"And if the Evil God knows the existence of the Spirit King and that mountain where various elemental spirits reside, the Evil God should have gone there right away. Either to get the spirits’ help to improve their magic, or erase all the spirits residing there. Which means the Evil God don’t know about that place," I said.
If he knew, then that should be his first target instead of us. So I guess the Spirit King and the spirits will be our great allies even if they don’t fight.
But for the Spirit King to be weaker than average expert level mages? I think that could be true in the past. But now, even back then with Airy and Breezy, they are strong enough to cover a mountain with a hurricane. So I think the power level at that time was so much different than today.
Well, I hope the distance between the strength from back then and now could be covered thanks to magic control.
But seriously, how strong were the mages back then? Not only were there should be a lot of master level mages back then, but the expert level mages were alread stronger than the Spirit King.
Whatever. What I know is that we still need more power.
If Timmy’s earth magic can’t detect the Evil God’s location, then we will probably need the detection of someone even stronger than Timmy. But we will probably wait a long time for that to happen.
"Anyway, the Spirit King granting a wish is a lie. For us. For the Spirit King, it’s real. But what happened next is also important," I said.
Then I told everyone how Victoria, Shirley, Sonia, Airy, and Breezy were fallen asleep. And I asked the Spirit King to wake them up only for the Spirit King to tell me that he wanted to see my past.
"So, the Spirit King can use illusion to project your past and get everyone to watch it? The memory before you got returned back to the past? Then we should just watch it now," old man Henry suggested.
"But it will take a long time. And you’re all busy people who probably only have a few hours of time today. So I don’t think that’s a good idea," I said.
"Don’t worry, Roy. I told them all that this meeting will be a long time and they need to free their schedule for today and tomorrow. So we have time," Albert said.
Wait, really?!
Then I checked my phone and see the forum that I rarely see. It was indeed as he said. He has told them to free their schedule not just until tomorrow, but for the next few days as well.
So, I need to sleep again?
"It means that all the head I have collected is useless. Well, they can see it for themselves, so it’s better this way," Victoria said.
"What about you? You don’t want to watch my past again, right?" I asked the Spirit King.
"It is the reason why I helped the Black Slime to bring you to the past after all. To ask for help. After thinking about it since you left the mountain, I have decided to show everyone your past. Thanks to the phone you gave me before, I could speak with Shirley and we decided to do it again. So I will put you to sleep again," the Spirit King said.
There are a lot of kings here. Won’t it be bad if they stay here without resting?
"Don’t worry, Roy. Shirley also discussed it with me. And we decided to watch your past with breaks. So during breaks, you can wake up for a while. Then we can have bathroom breaks or snacktime during breaks. You don’t have to worry about the fact that Alan, Lana, and Luna are here. We will skip the part that have maturity rating. As for the part with a lot of violence, they are the children of royalty. Like it or not, they have to witness it," Victoria said.
So Shirley told Alan, Lana, and even Luna that they will watch violence? I don’t think it’s a good idea because I’m pretty close to them. And they will see my death.
"Don’t worry about it. When we think that it’s too much for the kids to endure, we will cover their eyes and ears," Marie said. And Carmen is also agreed with her.
Is it that bad that I went to the brothel too many times? Yes, it is.
I guess Victoria and Shirley will tell the Spirit King to what time will be important for everyone to watch. So they will skip a lot of my past.
So I need to sleep again? And this time, while being watched by everyone? With breaks in between so I can wake up, take a piss, and get some meals before I go back to sleep, huh?
Actually, that sleep was much better than even when I used sleeping gas on myself. So if I can have that sleep, that would be great.
But letting these people see my past while I can’t do anything is just weird.
"Spirit King. Can’t you just show everyone the illusion you watched? Since it’s in your own memory, you should be able to do it, right? And I can watch it instead of having to sleep. I might be able to remember something if I watch everything," I said.
"That... is a good idea. I guess we should do just that," the Spirit King said.
This means that I can also watch my own past. Though the Spirit King will have easier time to alter everything since it won’t be connected to my mind this time.
Meanwhile, Shirley and Victoria approached the Spirit King to discuss something. I can’t hear them since Shirley used her wind magic to cover the sound. But I think it’s to not let us see something that we shouldn’t see.
I heard from Victoria herself that the Spirit King helped Javier to return me back to the past, I guess they want to hide that fact. Because if everyone here knows that the Spirit King can return someone back to the past, it won’t be good for us. Because someone might abuse that fact for their own gains.
But it’s weird. This should be my past. But why are they trying to keep it as secret from even me, the one who have this past? It’s just weird.
Whatever. I’m not a smart man anyway. I’ll just let them think of something, while I just do it. It’s easier for me that way.
It has always been that way. I’m not the best at planning anyway.
Though I’m curious about why everyone here seems to be exctited to watch my past. Some of them even have popcorn with them. I’d like to have some as well.